Strengthening routine health information systems for analysis and data use: a tipping point

Agbessi Amouzou¹, Cheikh Faye², Kaspar Wyss^{3

4}, Ties Boerma⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute for International Programs, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, Baltimore, USA. aamouzo1@jhu.edu.
² African Population and Health Research Center, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Centre for Global Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Editorial

Agbessi Amouzou et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 13;21(Suppl 1):618.

doi: 10.1186/s12913-021-06648-1.

Agbessi Amouzou¹, Cheikh Faye², Kaspar Wyss^{3

4}, Ties Boerma⁵

¹ Institute for International Programs, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MD, Baltimore, USA. aamouzo1@jhu.edu.
² African Population and Health Research Center, Dakar, Senegal.
³ Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
⁴ University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
⁵ Centre for Global Public Health, Department of Community Health Sciences, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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